Amos Bronson Alcott
Amos Bronson Alcott (born November 29, 1799 in Wolcott , Connecticut , † March 4, 1888 in Concord , Massachusetts ) was an American writer and educator who belonged to the philosophical-literary movement of transcendentalism in New England.
Amos Bronson Alcott put the idea of transcendentalism into pedagogical practice. The basis was the undogmatic and humanistically oriented teaching of the Unitarians . The students should be challenged and encouraged both mentally and physically and should be enabled to act independently. The aim was also to awaken an American self-confidence after the British colonial status had been stripped off. Margaret Fuller , who later became a social reformer and suffragette , also taught at his school in Boston .
In 1842 Alcott founded the social utopian settlement Fruitlands with other transcendentalists . Supporters were Elizabeth P. Peabody , Nathaniel Hawthorne , Ralph Waldo Emerson , Henry David Thoreau and William Ellery Channing . But his project failed a year later, just as a few years after the Commune Brook Farm by George Ripley .
Amos Bronson Alcott is the father of the writer Louisa May Alcott .
Amos Bronson Alcott died on March 4, 1888 in Concord, Massachusetts, at the age of 88. His daughter died of mercury poisoning just two days after him .
Works
- Conversations with children , 1836.
- Exempling the general principles , 1835.
- Record of a school , 1835.
- Sonnets and canzonets , 1882.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brockhaus Encyclopedia. FA Brockhaus, Mannheim 1994, vol. 22, p. 327
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Alcott, Amos Bronson |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer and educator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 29, 1799 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wolcott , Connecticut |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 4, 1888 |
| Place of death | Concord , Massachusetts |